Developer Tea

Jonathan Cutrell
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Aug 15, 2018 • 9min

Appreciating Jerry Weinberg

The world of computer science lost a legend last week when Jerry Weinberg passed away on August 7th, 2018. Author of "The Psychology of Computer Programming" as well as "Introduction to General Systems Thinking and quite a few other books, Jerry left us with a better understanding of what it means to be a developer. Today's episode is a tribute to Jerry's work. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
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Aug 13, 2018 • 16min

Asymmetry and the Halo Effect

Something that's interesting about instruments is the asymmetry of the job of each hand for skilled musicians. That's what we're going to be talking about in today's episode, the idea of asymmetry that developers experience. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Digital Ocean DigitalOcean is the easiest cloud platform to run and scale your applications. From effortless administration tools to robust compute, storage, and networking services, DigitalOcean provides an all-in-one cloud platform to help developers and their teams save time while running and scaling their applications. Build your next app on DigitalOcean. Get started today with a free $100 credit at do.co/tea. It only takes a few minutes to get up and running. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
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Aug 10, 2018 • 18min

Fixing Remote Work Communication

As a developer, you've probably encountered an offer to pursue remote work. More and more people are working in a nomadic state as opposed to in an office. So it makes sense to do some studying around remote work and the tradeoffs between remote and in-office work. ##Thanks to today's Sponsor: Reaktor They're looking for great software engineers for a number of product roles, with different emphases within the wide context of product development. Instead of predefining them as positions, they’d like to invite you to come to talk to them about your skills, experience, ambitions, and dream role. Check them out and tell them about what work motivates you at https://www.reaktor.com/careers/ Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
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Aug 8, 2018 • 15min

Accepting Irrationality

##Thanks to Breaker for sponsoring today's episode! Breaker just came out with a new option to subscribe without sponsor messages to the developer tea podcast. Developer Tea will continue to offer free sponsor included episodes but we've also partnered with Breaker to offer our listeners an avenue to subscribe for a low monthly rate of $4.99/month to listen to the episodes. If you listen to the podcast via the breaker app, and looking for an option to subscribe and skip the sponsor messages you can get all three episodes per week ad free by subscribing to Breaker.audio Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
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Aug 6, 2018 • 17min

Fluidity of Time

One of our most popular episodes on the show was on a subject that's tough to talk about. The subject was time and time management, and that's what we're going to talk about in today's episode - the plasticity and difficulty that time presents. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Digital Ocean DigitalOcean is the easiest cloud platform to run and scale your applications. From effortless administration tools to robust compute, storage, and networking services, DigitalOcean provides an all-in-one cloud platform to help developers and their teams save time while running and scaling their applications. Build your next app on DigitalOcean. Get started today with a free $100 credit at do.co/tea. It only takes a few minutes to get up and running. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
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Aug 3, 2018 • 10min

Primitive Obsessions

Today, we're talking about doing good work and writing better code, and this episode will ask you to question what good code is. We'll be exploring that through the lens of the code smell called Primitive Obsession. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
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Aug 1, 2018 • 11min

Future Features (Are Futile)

What code do you need today? Today's episode is all about business objectives that get translated into our code. ##Thanks to today's Sponsor: Reaktor They're looking for great software engineers for a number of product roles, with different emphases within the wide context of product development. Instead of predefining them as positions, they’d like to invite you to come to talk to them about your skills, experience, ambitions, and dream role. Check them out and tell them about what work motivates you at https://www.reaktor.com/careers/ Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
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Jul 30, 2018 • 10min

Evidence is Not Proof

What was the last time you felt 100% certain about a conclusion you made? We're talking about conclusions and how we come to them, and in today's episode I'll challenging you to ask more questions before landing on conclusions Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Digital Ocean DigitalOcean is the easiest cloud platform to run and scale your applications. From effortless administration tools to robust compute, storage, and networking services, DigitalOcean provides an all-in-one cloud platform to help developers and their teams save time while running and scaling their applications. Build your next app on DigitalOcean. Get started today with a free $100 credit at do.co/tea. It only takes a few minutes to get up and running. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
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Jul 27, 2018 • 16min

Fixing Overconfidence with Probabilities

In today's episode, we're talking about how we view our co-workers around us and our perceptions of ourselves. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
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Jul 25, 2018 • 11min

Replacing Implicit Questions

What questions are you answering right now? On today's episode we're talking about the power of questions, and more specifically the implicit questions that you're asking in your day. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Digital Ocean DigitalOcean is the easiest cloud platform to run and scale your applications. From effortless administration tools to robust compute, storage, and networking services, DigitalOcean provides an all-in-one cloud platform to help developers and their teams save time while running and scaling their applications. Build your next app on DigitalOcean. Get started today with a free $100 credit at do.co/tea. It only takes a few minutes to get up and running. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.

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